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Author Grace, Richard J., 1940- author.

Title Opium and empire : the lives and careers of William Jardine and James Matheson / Richard J. Grace
Published Montreal ; Kingston ; London ; Ithaca : McGill-Queen's University Press, [2014]
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Description 1 online resource (xi, 5 unnumbered pages of plates, 453 pages) : maps, portraits
Contents Prelude: The Scotland of Their Birth -- 1 Origins -- 2 Sailing from London to Canton -- 3 The Sirens of Commerce -- 4 The Heirs of Cox and Beale -- 5 Doing Business at Creek Hong -- 6 Charting New Waters -- 7 The Partners Apart -- 8 Approaching the Showdown in China -- 9 Jardine's Farewell and Matheson's Great Headache -- 10 Jardine's and Matheson's Roles in the Opium War -- 11 Their Lives after China -- 12 Sir James Matheson, Laird of Lewis -- Postlude: Gentlemanly Capitalists?
Summary In 1832 William Jardine and James Matheson established what would become the greatest British trading company in East Asia in the nineteenth century. This book explores the depths of each man, their complicated and sometimes inconsistent internal workings, and their achievements and failures
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 433-444) and index
Notes Online resource; title from PDF title page (JSTOR, viewed October 7, 2020)
Subject Jardine, William, 1784-1843.
Matheson, James, 1796-1878.
SUBJECT Jardine, William, 1784-1843 fast
Matheson, James, 1796-1878 fast
Subject Jardine, Matheson & Co. -- History
SUBJECT Jardine, Matheson & Co. fast
Subject Businesspeople -- Great Britain -- Biography
Businessmen -- Great Britain
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Exports & Imports.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- International -- General.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- International -- Marketing.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- International Relations -- Trade & Tariffs.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Historical.
Businessmen
Businesspeople
Commerce
SUBJECT Great Britain -- Commerce -- China -- History -- 19th century
China -- Commerce -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century
China -- History -- Opium War, 1840-1842. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85024090
Subject China
Great Britain
Genre/Form Electronic books
Biographies
History
Biographies.
Biographies.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780773596818
077359681X
9780773596825
0773596828